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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2012
We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which...
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The Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence
Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009
are economically significant, especially for low-income countries. This is even more so when the costs of different types …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013055
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Nineteenth Century Biological Conditions on the High Central Plains
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2012
Little work has been done on the biological conditions for the US Central Plains. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological conditions improved as Nebraska’s output market and...
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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224868
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Trust, Racial Fragmentation and Income Inequality: New Evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - CESifo - 2014
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income … inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial … groups (racial income inequality). I find that greater racial income inequality reduces trust. Also, racial fragmentation is …
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African-American and White Inequality in the American South: Evidence from the 19th Century Missouri State Prison
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2007
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economic history. Moreover, a number of core findings in the literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766023
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Health, Wealth and Inequality: a Contribution to the Debate about the Relationship between Inequality and Health
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008
The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the 19th century relationship between material inequality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766237
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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766299
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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - CESifo - 2009
This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533995
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Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - CESifo - 2010
It is argued that the concept of well –being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ...
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